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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. Oxford : James Currey, 2007 (OCoLC)608155565 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henri Médard; Shane Doyle |
| ISBN: | 9781847016027 1847016022 1847016030 9789970027279 9970027271 9780821417928 0821417924 0821417932 9781847016034 9780821417935 |
| OCLC Number: | 156891496 |
| Description: | xiv, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Violence, marginality, scorn & honour : language evidence of slavery to the eighteenth century / David Schoenbrun -- Notes on the rise of slavery & social change in Unyamwezic, c.1860-1900 / Jan-Georg Deutsch -- Slavery & forced labour in the eastern Congo / David Northrup -- Legacies of slavery in north west Uganda : the story of the 'One-Elevens' / Mark Leopold -- Human booty in Buganda : some observations on the seizure of people in war, c.1700-1890 / Richard Reid -- Stolen people & autonomous chiefs in nineteenth-century Buganda : the social consequences of non-free followers / Holly Hanson -- Women's experiences of enslavement & slavery in late nineteenth & early twentieth-century Uganda / Michael W. Tuck -- Slavery & other forms of social oppression in Ankole : 1890-1940 / Edward I. Steinhart -- The slave trade in Burundi & Rwanda at the beginning of German colonisation : 1890-1906 / Jean-Pierre Chrétien -- Bunyoro & the demography of slavery debate : fertility, kinship & assimilation / Shane Doyle. |
| Series Title: | Eastern African studies (London, England) |
| Responsibility: | edited by Henri Médard & Shane Doyle. |
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An exciting new addition to the literature on slavery and servitude in Africa as well as an important contribution to the historiography of the Great Lakes. LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN A pioneer study. A most interesting book, which breaks new ground, makes clear the inadequacy of the present sources, and above all shows the need for further interdisciplinary research. AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW Read more...
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